i'm don lemon at cnn headquarters here in atlanta. i want the tell you that a hurricane is hours a wai way fr making landfall. that is the cause of the concern, but look at the projected track of this storm. sometime tomorrow hurricane sandy will hit the east coast between washington, d.c. and new york city. that means people in the d.c. area, and philadelphia and baltimore, and new jersey and rhode island and connecticut are all in full speed emergency mode right now. life pictures. there it is. new york city, the skyline where the city subways were shutdown hours ago and city busebuses, t and port authority and trailways and greyhound and all of them are shutdown the night. 15 million people in 14 states are in the danger zone right now, and conditions are worse by the minute. sandy's full force has not gotten close, but you would not know it in ocean city, maryland, because the wind is whipping and

the rain is slamming down right now and massive power outages and flooding are expected there. we will get you back to someone, an intrepid reporter who is h braving the storm. and sandy endo, we thought you were done for the evening, but another hour live here. how is that wind doing? >> well, it is interesting, don. every hour, it has been changing here, but the one thing that is steady is the constant rain and constant wind. it is only getting stronger by the hour. chad was right with giving me that warning and i appreciate the head's up, because it is interesting that this hurricane is being felt right now even though the heart of it isn't really going the approach this area for another 24 hours or so. so you can see how strong the winds have been blowing. the rain is pelting down. the real threat to the area, if you can see the beaches behind me, you could see the waves. they are massive an fierd fierc

lapping up to the sand dunes that are protecting the property lines about 100 yards from the dunes. certainly something that official officials and residents are concerned about as the storm approaches. >> sandy, be safe out there, but in the broadcast, these are the best pictures, and this is just the initial, the initial impact of the storm off of the coast. again, sandy, as we talk here, i want to welcome, because they may have joined us late, the viewers from cnn international around the world and more than 200 countries around the world are watching us. san dirks ch sandy, chad meyers is here, and he may want to tell us more about the information we got at the top of the hour. >> while sandy feels okay, but did you feel the squall about 30 minutes ago, did it ever materialize? >> yes, chad. your words are ringing in my ears, because when you said that

the squalls are coming, we definitely feel them and see them. when we are inside, we look outside of the window, and we have a the wind blowing in the wind. clearly, that is something that everyone is looking out for here. they have had a mandatory evacuation order in effect for downtown ocean city, and some people in the hotel have been hunkering down, and other residents who are going to ride this out have been warned to really stay inside. so, clearly we have seen a light blow out here, and the wind gusts picking up a little bit. but again like other hurricanes, usually, those squalls come and go, and the rain stops and the wind dice down, but not in this case, because it is nonstop just gathering in this area. >> are you still very cold? >> it is cold. you know, it is unusual, don and chad. it is unusually cold for covering a hurricane, i must say. i guess that is the mixture of all of the different weather systems or just the late nature of when this hurricane is hitting this area, but it is a

one silver lining for ocean city, because usually this place is packed with tourists during the warm summer months, and lucki luckily, this is hitting later when less tourists are here trying to enjoy the beach. >> all right. sandra, stay safe. >> we will use your picture and come back to you throughout the hour and be on until at least midnight or maybe longer. if you need information on this hurricane no matter where you are, cnn is the place and we have it live. chad, we been talking about a presidential election happening as well, and we will talk a little bit of politics and how the storm will affect that. but my question about this is can we overstate the impact of the storm on the most populated part of the united states right now? >> well, i don't think so. it is a category 1, and the wind field is bigger that an category 1 and the surge is bigger than category 1. we will have water into new york harbor and water into new york sound, and we talked to professor coch who said that the

water will try to go up the east river and down the east river and somewhere at the confluence will be a significant flood somewhere close the roosevelt. that water will go back into brooklyn, queens or manhattan, and there are subway systems and intakes this that area, and if it is too high, all of the sudden, he is expecting professor coch, and from klumby kra? >> no, queens college. >> and he expects the salt water to be in the subway. >> and he said, that saltwater and subways don't mix. you said something important, and you it is a is unprecedented, because you were talking about people who would ride out the storm in big cities? >> well, we have 60 million people, and no place to tell them to go. i know there are some shelters burk in other hurricanes if you see it coming to a town or city, you go left or right. this thing is 1,000 miles north-south, and 1,000 miles

ea east-west. you cannot drive 1,000 miles out of the storm, and as the governor christy said, you have to ride it out in your house. if your house is not strong enough, find one that is, and get to somewhere safe. >> can we get to the pictures of the subway? is that tough to see where people are evacuating, because in new york city, where it is always going, there you go. they are telling people to get out of the subways. this is an empty subway station, and there is a notice there. 7:00 p.m., no more subway service, and it is suspended. >> i want to work on a street view from one of the affiliates, and see if we can get what the traffic looks like. i assume that the cabs are just going crazy out there. people still the have to go places. they have to go home. >> it is hard to get a taxi in new york city anyway, and if there is a sprinkle, so imagine this. chad, how apropos as we have

kevin from the mta on the phone. 7:00 shutdown, and how are people reacting to it? >> well, you know, first of all we ran normal service up until 7:00 with sufficient capacity to allow people to leave multiple areas and reach safe destinations and we ran additional service in areas of zone a to essentially get people out of the most flood-prone areas. now, at 7:00 we did begin an d orderly shutdown system at 9:00 and orderly shutdown of buses. by 9:24 p.m. all trains carrying passengers, customers, reached their terminals and service was s suspended as of 9:24. so far, everything has been orderly and worked out fine.

and we are moving forward with the complete shutdown of the system in terms of work trains going through the system to make sure that everything is clear. >> let me jump in here, mr. ortiz, how many people on a daily basis use mass transportation in the new york city area? >> in new york city, we have 5.5 million riders on the subway with another 2.5 million that utilize our buses and about 500,000 people who use commuter rail. so a million people. >> so this may be out of your realm, but are the trains still running or accela still running? >> well, i would have to talk to the port authority. >> i knew that was coming. sorry. >> i understand that amtrak has cancelled service in the northeast corridor.

>> are you here in the office? >> i'm here for the duration, gentlemen, absolutely. >> what is it like on a sunday night in new york city with that going on? take the viewers there. >> i am actually looking outside of my window, and not really seeing a single person on the street right now. so i think that folks have really taken heed to what the governor and mayor said and basically, you know, found proper shelter, and hopefully safe and at home or inside of a shelter somewhere. >> you think that the evacuation orders and people are following them. we had a professor on from queens college, professor coch who said he was concerned about the storm surge and the salt water getting into the new york city subway system, and that is a nightmare scenario for you, i am sure. >> well, critical -- well, we have actually removed critical track level components from under river so they they will

not sufficieer from corrosive subjects and anything that is subject to wind damage so we have taken all of the precautions that we can. >> one more question. the last time you did this, was it irene? >> it was. it was tropical storm irene in august 2011 where we essentially successfully helped to get people to safety before the storm, and then shutdown the transportation network in an orderly manner to protect the employees and equipment. >> before that, do you remember a time that we did this? >> weather-related -- that is probably the last time in memory we can recall shutting down the system. >> go ahead, chad. >> i know from riding the subway that the whole system is a sieve, and water can come in anywhere, did you sandbag low-lying subway entrances to

try to stop the water from coming in? >> yes, absolutely. we have done the sandbagging at various locations to take the steps to protect our infrastructure. now, anyone who travels new york on occasion sees razed subway grates where we have taken efforts to raze them above street levels to prevent the flood water from enters the system. >> thank you, kevin ortiz, from the mta, and great information and the best of luck to you, and we may be getting back to you. chad myers, that is good. >> and when they say you go to new york, what kind of limo do you take? i say the subway. the big silver bullet, because you can get so many places so much faster than being at the surface. it is -- i cannot imagine life there and as some of the precautions to board up areas to stop the water, and i can't imagine what life is like to not

move underground. >> i told you that a family has a condo and apartment in harlem, and new resident, and they called about the windows, but we need to get to your apartment, but to get to columbus circle from 159th street, sometimes four minutes or six minutes, but on a subway and imagine being in traffic to go that many blocks and i can't do the math which is why i'm a journal itselist, but is the success of a subway system in new york city, and don't forget washington, d.c. and chicago. >> the metro is not going to run either. >> all right. we will talk to an ireporter next. we will go to wherever the storm takes us. back in a moment.

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back now no tto our continu coverage of hurricane sandy. chad and i had a talk with a new york city professor, earth scientist and expert on coastal hurricanes. he has been studying the storm track and knows the geology of the no new york area, and he says that the heavy rainfall alone is not what he is concerned about. it is a fascinating conversation. here is part of it. >> a lot of the talk so far has

been about the water rising in new york harbor, but when you look at the wind field and the direction, long island sound is going to be a worse problem than long island, because the winds will be pushed into the western part of new york, and flood astoria and long island and at the same time you will see the surge coming in from the ocean, and that is going to be a terrible combination. >> prose fes sor, when that water is going up the east river and trying to come down the east river from the sound, what will happen? >> right. we will see massive flooding. >> roosevelt island? >> in irene, it came to close of a foot to getting into south ferry, but we will have a chance of getting saltwater into the subway for the first time. >> interesting, interesting from professor coch, thank you, sir. and damaging winds and flooding,

and no doubt that the hurricane is making impact on the east coast, and so to break et down and tell us how much it will cost and what will be affected is nick valencia with the latest. >> yes, this thing has not made landfall and causing mammoth problem, and flight cancellations, and first aid respopders trying to get into position. so we are breaking it down by the numbers. as it stands 61,000 national guard stationed up and down the seaboard and ready to go at a moment's notice if they have to contribute to the evacuation efforts or rescue operations. and other places that are feeling the anxiety is new york. earlier mayor bloomberg ordered mandatory evacuations for 375,000 people in the low-lying areas of new york that could see the impact from the storm surges, don. it is a big storm system here. there are a lot of people very

concerned right now. no question. >> yes, and they should be very concerned, because as we have heard from the president of the united states, and we heard from new jersey governor chris christie, and heard are the general honore, and admiral earlier. this storm -- and the guy who is f flying in the middle of the hurricane right now, it is a massive storm. >> 500 miles in diameter and about the size of california. huge storm system. >> it is going to impact the northeast part tof the united states somewhere and make landfall and impact a huge section of the northeastern seaboard and that is the projected path there. and don't forget there is a presidential election coming up shortly, and not even that, next tuesday, and the early voting that is supposed to go on that won't happen, because they are going to be shut down, and governments shutdown. >> yes, a lot of factors in play. a lot to kocover thkovcover tod.

this is sent from one of our ireporters from massachusetts, cape cod, massachusetts, and we want to go to talk to joni corcor corcoran. how are you doing? >> i'm doing well so far. >> how are you preparing for the storm, because you were out on the beach earlier, and how are you guys preparing? >> well, we spent yesterday and today preparing and getting to the store and getting in water and batteries and all of the things that were recommended. getting enough groceries in, and yes, i was on the beach today. i was on the beach a couple of times. you know, i'm looking at your map maps on cnn, and i have been watching you tonight, and i see that the storm is not even close to us yet, and the impact, the wind that is outside of my windows right now is

unbelievable. i can't imagine what it is going to be like when it gets here. >> what are you thinking about that? i -- you know, that would frighten me if it is not even close, and you can feel the impact already. >> yes, it is scary. when standing on the beach, the sand was just blowing in my face. i can hear the roar of the ocean. we are less than a block from the ocean here. so as you know cape cod really sticks right out there in the ocean. so the sound is unbelievable, and when i see it is not even close yet, i am like, wow. we have gotten some warnings from the town that we might have 80-mile-an-hour-plus winds and schools are closed here, but, yeah, i'm a little frightened. >> are you going to stay, joni? are you going to ride it out?

>> well, i don't know if we can go anywhere, because my son lives in northern massachusetts, and we could go there but i'm not sure if they will get it worse than us, and if the bridge closes, there is only the two bridges off of the cape. so if they close, then we are here here. >> yes. and joshgs oni as the ireporters, we see the pooch there. and the pooch is looking out of the window. >> yes, that is chance. he is my labradoodle, and he is on high alert watching out the window. when he turns, he turns toward the ocean, because that window goes out toward the ocean and he can hear the sound. when the animals start to respo respond, you know that the weather is not too good outside. >> well, maybe that should be a cuer for you to, you know, get out of there. >> well, yeah. well, we are going to look at it again tomorrow morning. make our decision. be but again, once the bridges are closed, then we will be here. >> you are there. we saw some buildings that

looked like a home that is boarded up. is that your home? did you put boards on your window? >> no, i was out in town today getting things prepared, and that is my bank. i went by the bank here in town, and it was all boarded up which frightened me since they are in town and further away from the water than i am, and i thought, well, we are not prepared to board up, and maybe we should have been. >> well, joni corcoran, we want you to be safe, and you should get out of there before the bridges are closed. because better safe than sorry. >> we will get up, and we will be watching your reports, and it has been a great report, and we are watching that map safely here. >> thank you. and give chance a big hug for us. >> i will. thank you very much. >> that is one of the ireporters and a lot of people are dealing with the same thing that joni

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welcome back to the continuing coverage for hurricane sandy. we have breaking news to tell you about. we want to go the cnn news and the hurricane desk with josh levs which involves the stock exchange and many people are going to be interested in what we are about to tell you. >> a few pieces of breaking news. the new york stock exchange has announced that it will close, and halt all trading and suspend

all trading tomorrow and potentially tuesday as well. it is saying pending confirmation tuesday. let me show you a quote from the statement that the new york stock exchange has sent out. this says a lot about what is going on there. it says that it comes after consultation which supports the consensus of the markets and the regulatory community that the dangerous conditions developing as a result of hurricane sandy will make it extremely difficult to ensure the safety of the people and the communities and safety should be the number one priority. i want you to know why this is news. earlier the new york stock exchange was saying that it would still be available for electronic trading, but however, the building might close, and thou that is off of the table. no trading at all for the new york stock exchange tomorrow, and at least one day and then we will see what happens tuesday. don, that is one piece of breaking news that i have for you. >> and yes, josh. we were talking about the subway system, but this is going to

impact world markets. i don't remember the last time it shut down and obviously 9/11, but very few days on a regular trading day has the stock exchange not traded. >> absolutely. i am glad you said that especially for the viewers in other countries, this is a very big deal. it is extremely unusual. the new york stock exchange is obviously playing a major role in the e kconomy and very rare that anyone will hear that the stock exchange closes all trading for the day. but the folks of the stock exchange say it is not safe to have anybody to operate it. >> and there is no mass transportation, and they don't want to be responsible for the workers. josh, another report, and someone who has lived there tu hurricanes a lot, but she said it is an eerie evening in new york city, and she will tell us about that, and you have more news of a kayaker? >> well, another thing. president obama has approved

connecticut's pre-emergency efforts. so we are seeing more and more federal dollars becoming available. and the coast guard was looking for a kayaker who went out in the water apparently without any life jacket today. the coast guard has suspended the search of the kayaker and talking about the dangerous conditions coming from sandy. >> thank you, josh levs. back to josh, and if he gets more information. so let's move on now. the person who has done this has covered a number of hurricanes before. she's been out there and she sent me an e-mail. ashleigh banfield. ash, you there? >> hi, don. >> so, ash, you sent me a note and said i drove down the northside highway and you said it is very eerie and tell me about the tankers and the freighters head haing up river.

>> yeah, listen. so i just left connecticut having hurricane-proofed the house, and saw the streets are barron everywhere i was leaving connecticut down i-95, a trip that would normally take me an hour or hour and 15 and maybe in bad weather two hours, and took me 35 minutes there. is no one on the road. i saw almost no truckers which is also very unusual late at night, and certainly on a sunday night. and then as you mentioned it as i came down the west side highway, the hudson river was very busy with what looked like tankers and freighters heading rapidly upriver and look g fing perhaps water that was calmer, certainly riding out the storm in the water, but in better waters than in the atlantic. it is not something that you normally see that much traffic at night, you know, on the

hudson. but the streets are barron. they are quiet in new york city right now. we have a live shot up with taxis, and that is about it. quiet and just starting to get windy, but it feels like that strange eeriness that we have only seen in a few times before and this is not a city that feels alive right now. >> the last time we did this, it was reverse. i was out in the field and you were at the anchor desk and i don't remember which sum me, 2001 or 2002 and you were at ms and i was nbc, and there were a string of hurricanes back-to-back-to-back by and by doing them so much, you get a feeling which one is going to be a bad one, and you have a strange feeling about this one? >> well, i do only because i was listening to chad myers talking even when he is not working and i felt when i started to hear chad's reports last week, and i have been in contact with him

just toward looking toward halloween, and then you hear the 500-year storm and we won't see damage like this in 70 years, i felt early on that people didn't feel as though this was going to be anything different than irene which is just a over a year ago, but now it seems that people are really catching on. there was all of the -- i will tell you that my kcosmic experience today is zero water on the shelves, and zero ice in the coolers at the local stop and shop, and gas lines were a fairly long. i filled up, and like i said hurricane-proofed where i live. but, it took a while before people would realize this is the big one, and now they know it is the big one, and they do feel as though with the announcement that 7:00 tonight all of metro north and the commuter traffic would shutdown and that is the signal, look, hunker down. you are not going to work and make alternate arrangements to

keep yourself and your family safe. look, i hope it changed. i don't think it is like irene where we expected the worse and dojd a bullet. i don't feel that is the situation this time. >> we will let you run and i know you have two kids, and i hope you are here and the kids are safe. you are coming in? >> i am coming into the city and i'm here for the long haul. >> you will see ashleigh banfield here telling us about her travels this evening. you know there is an election going on and hurricane sandy is scrambling the usual campaign routines that we see in the last days of the presidential race and they feel like they have the ground games put together, but not this one. rallies are moved or cancel and even most of the seasoned politicos are struggling to predict how it might affect this important election, important

one. cnn's chief correspondent candy crowley reports now. >> reporter: the beauty of being a president and candidate is when a monster storm stalks the east coast, you can run over to the federal emergency management agency and be seen as a president on the job which also works if you are reapplying. >> it is important to respond big and fast. >> reporter: the president cancelled the campaign trip tuesday to colorado, a swing state, but far beyond the reach of hurricane sandy. still the people say that the president needs to stay home and monitor things which one republican found interesting. >> you will notice that he is canceling the trips over the hurricane, but he did not over benghazi. >> both the president and the presidential contender mitt romney cancelled appearances in the weather-threatened swing state of virginia so as not to chew up resources and get in the

way of storm preparations, but suppose they held an election and the electricity was out? >> well, the state board of elections are planning for extended hours in advance of absentee voting and priority moved up to the same level of police stations and hospitals to have power restored. >> reporter: what about maryland? the state has cancelled early voting monday. what the storm-driven time-outs mean for the election stumps master politicos. >> obviously, we want unfettered access to the polls, because we believe that the more people who come out, the better we are going to do, and to the extent that it makes it harder, that is a source of concern. but i don't know how the politics will sort out. >> reporter: which brings us to the romney r/ryan ticket, becau they are not in power. >> i know people in the country are a little nervous about the storm that is about to hit the coast. our thoughts and prayers are for people who will find themselves in harm's way.

>> reporter: just a storm can make a campaign seem smallment they made a campaign bus available for relief efforts and started to take up collections in campaign offices and put up a blog with weather-related advice. the itinerary may change, and one politic said that the plan may change depending upon the storm. a disaster somewhere could make campaigning difficult anywhere. mixing politics and weather is to double-down on the unknown. candy crowley, cnn, washington. >> candy crowley, thank you very much. our very own chad meyers in the cnn severe weather center right now to the right looking over the latest models and information on hurricane sandy. so from meteorologists to generals to brigadier generals to senators to governors, and even the president of the united states weighing in on the se r severity of this storm and the

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okay. there it is over my shoulder. this shoulder. there it is over my left shoulder, and you see the skyline of new york city. new york city stopped the subways hours ago and the buses, t too, and no trains or light rail or buses running in new york city, and all in anticipation of the high water expected when hurricane sandy comes to shore. here is what is happening in other areas, and too, a state of he emergency in connecticut. we reported that just now, now in connecticut. the governor has notified hundreds of national guard troops to be on the ready. national guard on standby there. and sandy also having people put

sandbags and more along new jersey where they are expecting to get water along the jersey shore. people on the beach and work on the beach broke out the plywood before heading to higher ground. and then there is annapolis, maryland, as the city handed out sandbag sandbags to people, and they provided 20 tons of sand. coastal maryland could see a foot of rainfall. to the weather king, that is what i am naming you, chad myers, our meteorologist here. you know, over and over as i talked to you, shouldn't underestimate and i have been saying the same thing, the category 1 and people will say, well, it is still a category 1, and that if you are not feeling some of the wind and some of the rain, it does not mean you won't be affected by it. >> that is right. something slightly disturbing in the past hour, the storm has been gaining strength. >> oh, goodness. >> the hurricane hunter flying

through it now finding higher gusts aloft, and higher gusts at the surface, and pressure going down. this is what we didn't want to happen. that is what we feared and knew that the pressure was low enough to be a bigger hurricane than this, but it had not organized enough. in the past couple of hours, it has an eye now, and the eye is circular and when that happens, it becomes a generator, and it generates its own power and starts to deepen which means to get lower pressure and get hi higher winds. we didn't want it to happen, and what we feared would happen, but a now it is in the gulf stream again. there is warm water right under the storm. so in the next couple of hours we want it to stop or at least that trend stop, because the storm has an awful lot more power. it has be been going still for a while to the northeast. we are waiting, don, for the big turn to the left. the longer we have to wait, the farther it goes to the north. so we are somewhere up in here, and the quickert turns, the

farther to the south, and somewhere this the middle of the cone would be maybe cape may, new jersey, if you want to put it somewhere or closer to atlantic city in new jersey, wildwood. i want you to look at this though. that is long branch new york, new jersey, coney island about, and that is rehoboth beach, delaware, and this is the cone. that is a possible. the cone is getting smaller and not as wide as days ago, but it is not a perfect forecast or perfect storm. the forecast is what it is, and the models are not perfect and the forecasters are only human and use what they get. this is the tools that they get and this is the tools that we have to tell you about it. every time you get one of the squalls, right, there the yellow line, and when it comes on the shore, the winds will double. all of the sudden behind it, the blue and not much rain and the winds die off. every time the yellow comes on shore, you will see the squalls.

more out here and you can't see them, because that is too far for the radar to technically see or look out into the ocean. the forecast guidance has new jersey somewhere in the sights. this right here, and we haven't talked about that. look at that mess where the things are going squiggly. >> not good. >> not good, pause the storm could technically stop for a while and then go up to the north or do a loop. that would allow much more rain to come down and in spots out to the west, much more snow. there will literally be four to five feet of snow in the mountains of west virginia. there are blizzard warnings in effect. blizzard warnings in places that will have well in excess of a couple of feet of snow. in some spots in the highest elevation s elevations in the ski resorts in west virginia, we will see double that 24 inches at 40 and 60-inch snowfalls. the storm surge is significant for new york harbor, and we talked about i know we played this interview before and again.

the professor, we talked about, and i think that the name was coch was worried about the water filling up new york sound and coming up into the new york harbor. only one place tfor that to collide and that is the east river. he is afraid that in here, the water will rise to places that we haven't seen it ever. >> oh, goodness. chad, i want to reel off a couple places, because people are asking. someone said that pittsburgh, they are not getting much information there. should they be worried? what is the situation? >> winds to 60, because even though you are far away, this is a big storm and the size of the wind field is enormous. that orange area is 40 miles per hour or more. north of massachusetts south to florida and then is the hurricane area. so you have the think that if this is 40 h this is 50 or 60, and this is moving into the u.s. this bowling ball of wind will

hit pittsburgh and cold enough in the mountains around somerset or some of of the ski resorts maybe up into the snow which is a problem, because there are some leaves on some of the trees there. most of the snow is reserved for west virginia. >> i have ard ha break here, but boston -- hard break but boston and d.c.? >> boston, not much action but waves and surge of eight feet which is going to be lapping at the shores of massachusetts and especially in cape cod. what was the next one? >> d.c. >> if it turns this way and goes late, you are far enough away from it you will get the west winds moving off shore, but they could be 55 or 60 and at that point the big old trees that live in maryland and virginia and d.c. will come tumbling down. >> thank you, chad myers. appreciate it. you guys, thank you for sending

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atlanta. we are broadcasting around the world. it is 11:00 p.m. here in the united states, and we are watching a hurricane bearing down on the united states, and it is called hurricane sandy. the forecasters have dire predictions for the hours and the days to come. this storm will make landfall somewhere on the populous northeast corridor and affect the lives for about 50 million people in 14 states. that includes all of metropolitan new york city and as far south as washington, d.c. and as far north as boston. the president of the united states, barack obama, has declared federal states of emergencies for several states, including new york and massachusetts. millions of people tonight are hopefully following emergency officials' advice preparing the homes and families for the arrival of a very serious storm. people in the evacuation zones all along the east coast are looking for shelter right now, and on the phone with us is todd

james a field representative with the american red cross, and he is in atlantic city, new jersey, with us, and we have been looking at a tower cam that is along the boardwalk and you can see the winds picking up with the camera shaking there. what are you offering people there, mr. james? >> don, the red cross has been opening shelters in the wake of the path of sandy for the last couple of days now, and preparing to open up more as needed. we sheltered a couple of hundred folks last night starting down in north carolina moving up. of course, as the storm is closer inland and we see more of the effects, we have had dozens more shelters opening up in the area, and a half dozen or more in philadelphia and several here in new jersey and further inland from where we are here in atlantic city. as you mentioned earlier, a

mandated evacuation of atlantic city earlier today, and several thousand people left the city and a lot of them went to the red cross shelters in places like pleasantville, and we have emergency response vehicles stuck with supplies and thousands of meals ready to roll in as needed. volunteers are on the ground along the coast area and inland where we are getting the shelters set up to prep them. in a situation like this, as you know from tracking the hurricanes before, the path can change now, and we have to be ready to move it. we do have a pretty good idea where a lot of the areas that are going to be affected and the shelters if they are not opened, they will be opened in a moment's notice and a lot of staff with the red cross volunteers who have traveled across the country to provide a safe place to stay and make sure that everybody has something to eat. we have disaster and mental health there to help take care of the -- >> if i could jump in --

>> and also we are offering several tools an information to help people prepare for the storm before it gets there. >> mr. james, a quick we cquest and we have to get to something, because the computer will cut us off in the middle of our conversation. what about people who have limited bus and train services and people cannot get there, how can you help them? >> the red cross, itself, we cannot provide transportation. we encourage you to contact the local authorities, and in a lot of the communities they are make arrangements for that. if you have not heard anything about transportation from maybe a local news source, give the authorities a call. if you are not able to transport, if you can -- >> todd james, we have to run before we get cut off, the field representative with the american red cross in atlantic city. thank you is much.

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all right. don lemon here in the cnn headquarters in atlanta, and so are my co-anchors general russel honore who saved new orleans after katrina and chad myers

guiding us through the very latest. what should we expect from the storm when we wake up tomorrow? >> everything we thought that was going to be true is. everything in the last five or six days is coming true. it is a big storm and on the way and going to make landfall tomorrow. you need to pay attention and take care of yourself. >> general russel honore? >> well, you will see all of the government going from the strategy which has been talked about, going into the tactics, arranging where things are going to be and supply bases closing, and when to close the transportation, and when to open up shelters, to get into the logistics, but dealing with a disaster is about logistics. getting the food and water and help the people where they are. that is the big game that is going to happen in the next 24 hours. >> thank you shg, general. thank you, chad myers. don lemon here, and in an effort to save lives i did not mean the scare anyone, but this is a

serious situation and you need to heed the warnings from the officials. thank you. heed the warnings and seek higher ground if you need to. up documentary romney revealed followed by obama revealed. cnn will do weather cut ins. if it warrants it, we'll come back live. thank you everyone for watching. be safe. good night. a man born to wealth, privilege and politics. >> i'm mitt romney and i'm running for president of the united states. >> i think my dad is always felt like he wanted to be true to his dad's name and legacy. >> a savvy businessman who made a fortune at bain capital. >> he has two speeds. asleep or wide awake and fixing

things. he is a mr. fix it. >> driven by faith, himself, his family and his mormon religion. >> you try your best to know what god might say and look for direction from church as well. >> warm caring man. >> he was going to do anything to say i'm here. just stay right there. >> or a cold calculated politician. >> he's made decisions knowing they could resurface 30 years under the glare of a campaign. >> he's not pro-choice. he's multiple choice. >> he want to run for president of the united states. >> or a true believer. >> i know his core. hones honesty, integrity, conviction to doing the right thing. >> we're going to bring back mark. >> now "romney revealed, family, faith and the road to power."

ann and mitt romney summer home sits in new hampshire. a private, large and lived in family retreat for the entire clan, all 28 of them. >> they all just left. a lot of them left last night. i ran through 12 loads there morning. a lot of towels and sheets. it's a youous thing to have them all here. >> even in the midst of a presidential campaign. >> tell me a little bit about the mitt romney that's here at the lake. >> nonstop. nonstop. he is going every minute. he's loving it. he pops out of bed the first thing in the morning and he's just going. >> here inside the lake house romney is more camp counselor than candidate. >> fun loving, warm.

get him out of public eye he's as loose and spontaneous and so much fun to be with. >> what happens when you get in the public eye? >> you have to be more careful with your words. you have to be very careful. it's unfortunate that even, people i think probably only think of mitt through his business lens and for me that is just 1% of who he is. >> who is he really? first and foremost a romney. the romney name has been in the public eye for the last half century. a family of great wealth and business achievement. political success as well as failures. mitt was the fourth and last child for george and lenore romney born march 12th, 1947. some recall him as the favorite.

george wrote to the family in september 1956, mitt is growing like a weed, full of ideas and energy as ever. tom mccafrey grew up with romney. >> he was extremely energetic. he could never sit down. his mind was going 100 miles per hour. >> george was much the same way. he's got that energy. >> phillip max well lived do unthe street in a wealthy detroit suburb. >> george would go out on the golf course. he would hit the ball and run after the ball jogging. hit the ball again and that was his exercise. >> young mitt not only had his father's energy. >> there seemed to be a special bond between george and mitt.

>> mitt absolutely idol ized hi father in way you can see drawn out in the way he runs his life following the footsteps of his career. >> george romney saved american motors by betting on smaller cars. it fave his son a first look at business. >> george was a turn around artist taking a company that lost focus for whatever reason and fixing it. >> once george made his mark in the auto world he switched gears to politics. he was the run governor of michigan for three terms and young motte was a fixture on the campaign trail schooled early in issues, strategies and the possibility of losing. >> dad's pollster said george you can't win. i was a kid in high school. i thought oh, no, we're going to lose. i'm going to be embarrassed at school. these little things that kids think.

my dad said i'm not in this because i worry about winning or losing. i want to make a difference. he's been defined as a man of character throughout his life. >> then there was his mother. >> my mom had had a softer side. she gave me a love of culture and literature. >> once a screen actress, she met george in 1924. their courtship became an often told part of the family story. >> he left what he was doing and travelled west to hollywood and tried to convince her to marry him as opposed to going into the movie business. he knew what he wanted and was not going to stop until he got it. >> mitt's courtship of ann was in its own way, noless intense. they were teenagers at neighb neighboring private schools. it was his senior year when he

spotted ann at a dance. >> i did fall very in love with him very quickly. i was very aloft and very smooth. >> i'd saul and say let's get together. she said she was too busy. she went on date while i was pursuing her. >> she was very fun. >> there were lots of stoiries f good natured jokes. >> he was slumming around trying find his place. he would get involved in places which were really attention getting devices. >> maxwell remembers one incident that crossed the line. a younger classmate returned from break with long bleached blonde hair and a group of guys including romney confronted him. >> he was taken down and mitt has scissors and cut his hair. it was an ugly scene and it was

a long time ago but i'll never forget it because of the look on this boy's face. he was absolutely terrified when they took him down. >> others, as you know, who went to cranbrook remember different stories that were over the to and maybe cruel. do you remember it that way? >> no, i don't. i know that comes up during the campaign season. it's the first time i've heard that. >> the haircutting story? >> i think that's the only story i've heard of that nature. the pranks that we pulled were designed to be funny and have fun. i can imagine that now and then things i did in high school are not things i want to be part of a presidential campaign. >> that was decades ago. one incident when romney was teenager without focus and direction. something we would find later in a very surprising place.

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it was fall 1965, stanford university. the counterculture movement was growing. a different world for freshman mitt romney, straight from a michigan boarding school and his conservative roots. >> he has this exposure, i think, to all these new ideas, all these new people, these new experiences. >> but all romney could think about at first was ann, back in michigan. mark marcus was romney's roommate. >> a lot of guys come to college and have high school girlfriends. but you could tell for mitt it was different. he could not stop talking about ann. >> we were so much in love. i went off to college, and got a job there to earn a little money so i could pay for an airplane ticket to go home and see her. >> this was at stanford. >> while i was at stanford. we didn't tell my parents about this. >> so you snuck home? >> i flew home, snuck home,

would take her on a date. >> he's very affected by the world in which he sees an antiestablishment growing. >> romney stood with the establishment and for the war. really the first time we see him emerge is when he does lead this protest. he's standing up with a sign saying, speak out, don't sit in. >> but romney never went to vietnam himself, exempt as a student and with a high draft lottery number. >> he's protesting the anti-war protesters, but he does not volunteer to go serve in vietnam. he would have been eligible to serve, certainly.

>> at the end of his freshman year, romney would be called to serve. not his country but his faith, as a mormon missionary in france. it was a tradition he considered breaking. >> he was concerned, according to his friends, that he might lose ann. so he talked to ann about this and she told him, you know, if you don't go, you'll always regret it. and i'll be here. >> when he left, i had a very brave face, went to the airport with his entire family. we all said good-bye. i was driven home with his family, and then i walked into my home, opened the door, my mother was there. i fell flat on the ground and just dissolved in tears. and she could not console me. >> for 2 1/2 years in the turbulent '60s, romney was living abroad, working every day to convert the skeptical french to his mormon faith. so this is this kind of neighborhood that you used to

knock on doors in, all day? >> this -- yes, 45 years ago. this is fairly typical. >> mike bush took us back to the streets of bordeaux, where he and romney spent 60 hours a week spreading their faith in french. >> did you have a specific message? >> we would talk to them about our beliefs. we would talk about jesus christ, talk about the book of mormon. >> you're out talking to people about your faith and your religion and differences between it and other faiths. >> getting doors slammed in your face. >> most of the time. this was a time when a lot of people were not happy with america in france. it was a time of a great deal of rejection. >> but romney kept at it. in a rare conversation about his faith, he reveals how the constant rejection led to some surprising soul searching. >> but you say, okay, wait a second, what's important here? what do i believe? what's truth? is there a god? is jesus christ the son of god? these are questions that are no

longer academic, they're critical because you're talking about that day in and day out. >> as mitt questioned everything he was raised to believe in, his father tried to get his son back on track. >> your father sent you this letter when you were in france. and he quoted robert lewis stevenson to you in trying to sort of get you to not feel discouraged. he said, despair not but if you despair, work on in your despair. and then he wrote, so persist. >> my dad, what a guy. what a guy. i mean, he's always been there for me. look, i remember my dad's advice throughout my life. every time i had challenges of one kind or another, he was there with counsel. an extraordinary man. >> who happened to be running for president while mitt was a world away, isolated, depending largely on newspaper accounts of

his father's fight for the republican nomination. >> i have decided to fight for and win the republican nomination and election to the presidency of the united states. >> the war in vietnam was issue number one. george romney had been a hawk but turned against the war and said so. >> you know, when i came back from vietnam, i just had the greatest brainwashing that anybody can get. >> by the general? >> when you go over to vietnam -- not only by the generals but also by the diplomatic corps over there. >> months after george romney's now-infamous brainwashing comment, his campaign collapsed. an early political lesson mitt romney would never forget. >> mitt's sister jane has said for example this really deeply affected mitt and that he's more careful in what he says, more scripted in what he says because he saw just how one phrase could torpedo a presidential campaign.

>> thank you, governor romney. >> thank you very much. >> if george's failure turned romney into the cautious candidate he is today, he won't admit it. some people say you've learned from or overlearned from mistakes. >> i do that, too. i tell the truth, too. he used to say -- one of his favorite sayings was that being right too early is devastating in politics. but, still, it's being right. and you tell people what you believe. >> what romney believes has become an issue throughout his political career. and while the message was clearer in france, his mission would almost cost him his life. >> i was at home, and i had word that he was killed. machine [ male announcer ] red lobster's hitting the streets

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dangerous place to be for a 21-year-old american. but mitt romney was right in the middle of it. >> there were protests and there were blockades and there were marches all over the country. >> the streets of france were in

chaos. >> there was no train service, there were no buses, no newspapers. the electricity would go off from time to time. there were no letters from home. the money at the time came via check. that was our lifeline, was getting letters from home. >> so you were totally isolated? >> totally isolated. >> they were out of touch pretty much with 200 missionaries that they were responsible for. >> andy anderson's father was leading the mormon mission in france. by the time the riots ended, romney had been promoted to become president anderson's assistant, and they had an urgent assignment. >> they had gotten word there was some little dispute in this southern city in this mormon congregation so they decided to drive down to try to resolve it in person, and mitt was driving. >> it was a warm summer day in june when they began a six-hour drive between paris and the south of france. romney was driving anderson and his wife leola. >> they, i believe, were in the town of beaulac.

as they come north near the top of the hill and in their way was a mercedes. they had no time to react. the car was on the wrong side of the road. >> the mercedes driver, apparently drunk, slammed into them at full speed. both cars crushed and mangled. mitt romney and leola anderson unconscious. >> george called me on the phone and said, "we have some bad news about mitt," but he didn't tell me what and he came and picked me up and took me to his home. i had word that he was killed. >> the policeman on the scene apparently thought i was in worse condition than i was and wrote in french "he is dead" on my passport. >> we waited for hours and hours, most of the night, to get word from france that he was actually alive. >> i was knocked unconscious and only recall waking up for a brief moment in the ambulance, going to the hospital. >> it turns out that romney had

a severe concussion and broken bones, but leola, the mom away from home to 200 young missionaries, was dead. >> it was a great time of challenge and soul searching for all of us. >> romney, anderson's assistant, was now left to lead a struggling mission. >> the person who had been leading our mission there, a wonderful man, was so injured that he had to return to the united states for surgeries. and during that time i and one other fellow took responsibility for overseeing the affairs of the 200 or so men and women -- or boys and girls -- that were serving there as missionaries. >> this was a critical moment. >> it was. >> morale must have been -- >> morale was low. by september, we were only halfway toward our yearly goals. >> romney kept the mission going and set an ambitious new goal,

more than doubling the target for conversions. >> mitt said, we need to raise the bar, raise the expectation. if we want to really change behavior, we've got to have people do things different from how they've been doing them. >> so they did just that. >> we were dressed up in vaudeville outfits we had found in the basement of the mission home there. it just brought the house down and lifted people's spirits, and they were laughing again. >> spirits were high and so were the number of converts. >> we were at 80. >> you were at 80. >> doubling it in the last four months. come december 31st, we had 204, 205 new converts that had happened. so the goal was accomplished. >> by the end of his mission, romney had cemented his faith. >> these things drew me closer to the eternal and convinced me that in fact there is a god, that jesus christ is the son of god and my savior. these are features that continue to be important in my life. >> he was a young boy when he left, a prankster and liked to

play jokes and probably didn't take life too seriously. he came back much more studious, much more serious. i think discovered a little bit about who he was and what was important to him. >> mitt romney was ready to return home, but an unexpected letter sent him reeling. >> i was just sort of telling him before he came home, i haven't seen you for 2 1/2 years, i don't -- i'm dating other people.

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